The GroupMail Marketing Pack is a bundle of Infacta’s GroupMail Business Edition software and an annual subscription to two or our web services (GroupMetrics and GroupSurveys.) Purchased as a bundle, the same services are offered at a price lower than if purchased separately. The GroupMail Marketing Pack includes:
1 License of GroupMail Business Edition Software:
GroupMail is the leading desktop bulk email application that allows users to send highly formatted, personalized HTML or Text emails to large groups of recipients. The Business Edition is designed for higher volume tasks and is ideally suited to business and corporate users. GroupMail Business Edition can send almost 100 times faster than the Personal Edition using up to 256 simultaneous delivery connections and incorporates useful features like Database Direct Linking & Importing (ADO/OLEDB/ODBC), Scheduling, an Email-to-SMS gateway, Queuing, Background sending, MS Outlook Integration, routing, XML document support, and much much more!
- All the features in GroupMail Personal Edition
- Schedule messages for sending at a later date
- Send Large mailings at incredible speeds using up to 256 delivery connections
- Import Outlook, Group Wise, Lotus Notes, Exchange and PINE address books and distribution lists
- Integrates into the MS Outlook Toolbar (MS Outlook 2002 or above)
- Link directly to or import from any ODBC or OLE DB/ADO compatible database
- Share groups with multiple users
- Send Mobile SMS Text Messages
- Transform XML Documents using XSL stylesheets into Group Mail messages
- Over 30 Newsletter Templates to choose from
- Free Add-ons
* Regular price for GroupMail Business Edition if purchased separately is 349.95 USD
25,000 Credits/Month for one year of GroupMetrics Email Tracking:
GroupMetrics is a web-based service that allows you to track open and click-through rates for your email campaigns. With GroupMetrics, you can measure the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns. When you are doing your mailing, you simply replace your links with the traceable links that GroupMetrics creates for you and the GroupMetrics Tracking Manager will monitor all of the events that happen as your email is opened by your customers.
With these types of reports at your disposal, you can figure out if your customers find your emails relevant to them or which parts of your message they are most interested in. GroupMetrics provides detailed reports on who opened your message and what links within it they clicked on. You can view these reports right from your GroupMetrics web account or export them into a neat, easy to read .pdf file to share with your boss.
* Regular price of this GroupMetrics package if purchased separately is 249.50/year
5,000 Credits/Month of GroupSurveys Online Survey Responses:
GroupSurveys makes it easy to design online surveys and distribute them to your audience using links that can be used in email, blogs, websites or anywhere you can include an HTML link.
With GroupSurveys, you can:
- Track individual respondents and view all responses in full as they come in. You can also track your respondents by email or similar identifier when used with GroupMail
- Use Skip Logic or Conditional Branching to control the flow of your surveys, so that questions that are not relevant to certain respondents are hidden from them.
- Track your survey results via RSS feeds.
- Export your reports and data as a .csv file for integration with MS Excel or other application or as a .pdf file for a polished presentation of your results.
* Regular price of this GroupSurveys package if purchased separately is 179.40/year
The total value of these products and services, if purchased separately is 778.85 USD. Purchased as a bundle with the GroupMail Marketing Pack, the same products and services cost 699.95 USD.
Note 1: After the first year, the GroupMetrics and GroupSurveys services portion of the Marketing Pack will require a paid subscription to continue using them. At that point, you can decide either not to continue with those services, or select from a range of subscription packages, to include pay-per-use, monthly or annual subscriptions.
Note 2: There is no recurring cost for the GroupMail software license – which is desktop software that you can use as much as you want for as long as you want. You can choose to renew your Upgrade Protection on the software each year, which gives you access to downloads of the product from our website and no-cost updates to the software when new releases are published each year (There were 8 releases to GroupMail in 2007). Your initial purchase of any GroupMail Products includes a full year of Upgrade Protection. If you decide not to renew your Upgrade Protection, your application will continue to work just fine – and you can renew it at any point if a release is published that you would like to upgrade to – but the cost to do so is less if renewal is done before it expires each year.
I hope that this clarifies the GroupMail Marketing Pack and illustrates the value of purchasing these eMarketing products and services as a bundle rather than individually. Please direct any questions in the comments below or contact us if you would like more information.
One last thing. The big spam gangs who pump out millions of messages per day use sophisticated technology to pump out that volume. They also use zombie computers to do the work for them.
They wouldn’t be using a desktop email marketing application like GroupMail to process that volume of messages each day.
Hi Internet Marketing IQ. Email marketing is used by most businesses in the world to communicate with their customers and opt-in subscribers on an opt-in basis. Legitimate email marketing actually provides the best ROI in the online marketing industry. There’s nothing at all wrong with permission-based email marketing. As a matter of fact, any company not using email marketing as part of their marketing plan is making a big mistake.
The spam you are referring to involves those spam messages sent out by the 100 spam gangs in the world who send out millions of messages a day to harvested email lists. I wrote about that on this blog. You can see the post below:
How Dismal Conversion Rates Pay Off for Spammers
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Interesting Post on PC World Magazine regarding the use of these type of tools for spam. The measure they reported is 1 in 12.5 million unsolicited emails results in an action. They further reported that one action results in 7k per day profit.
I can see the use of these tools inhouse but question bulk mailing on any level outside a corporate environment. Opt in has a whole new meaning these days.
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